# CVE-2026-25627: nanomq: OOB Read / Crash (DoS) via Malformed MQTT Remaining Length over WebSocket

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.24.8
- Published: 2026-03-30 · Updated: 2026-03-31

## Affected

- nanomq: fixed in 0.24.8

## Description

NanoMQ MQTT Broker (NanoMQ) is an all-around Edge Messaging Platform. Prior to version 0.24.8, NanoMQ’s MQTT-over-WebSocket transport can be crashed by sending an MQTT packet with a deliberately large Remaining Length in the fixed header while providing a much shorter actual payload. The code path copies Remaining Length bytes without verifying that the current receive buffer contains that many bytes, resulting in an out-of-bounds read (ASAN reports OOB / crash). This is remotely triggerable over the WebSocket listener. This issue has been patched in version 0.24.8.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nanomq, upgrade to a fixed version (0.24.8) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/security/advisories/GHSA-w4rh-v3h2-j29x
- https://github.com/nanomq/NanoNNG/pull/1405
- https://github.com/nanomq/NanoNNG/commit/e80b30bad6d855593a68d18f2785bfaca6faf09e
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/releases/tag/0.24.8

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